ENTERTAINMENT OF CHRISTIAN IV.
CHRISTIAN the Fourth, King of Denmark, came to England on the 17th of July, 1606, on a visit to the Queen, Anne of Denmark, his sister; and he continued in this country till the 11th of the following month. During his residence here, he was treated with extraordinary magnificence and revelling. His entry into London was graced by the citizens with a similar display of pageantry as had been customary at the coronation of their own sovereigns. Both James and Christian rode through the city in grand procession, preceded by the Lord Mayor, bearing a golden sceptre, and followed by a most splendid train of British and Danish nobility. "Upon the Great Fountain, in Cheapside," Stow says, "was erected the Bower of the Muses; and near the Pageant, by the Goldsmith's-row, where sat the great elders of the VOL. I.